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“Britain on Wednesday froze the assets of international neo-Nazi group Blood and Honour, the first use of the UK's counter-terrorism sanctions to target a far-right entity. The finance ministry said it had "reasonable grounds" to suspect that Blood and Honour was "promoting and encouraging terrorism, seeking to recruit people for that purpose and making funds available" for terror activities… The group emerged in England in 1987 from the skinhead music scene, according to The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit policy organisation working to combat extremist ideologies. Founded by Ian Stuart Donaldson, who died in a 1993 car crash, it has since spread across Europe, Russia, Australia, and North America, the CEP noted.”
“... Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project also sees a growing danger from IS terror for Europe and Germany . However, a special fund alone will not provide a solution, Schindler warned in an interview with the Münchner Merkur . "Money alone is not a solution. The legal basis must first be created, only then can the money from a special fund be used effectively," said Schindler. Above all, the online powers of the security authorities need to be modernized, says the expert: "This involves data retention, IP data storage independent of the reason and, above all, the evaluation of mass data from social media using AI."”
"Don Mihalek, Retired Sr. Secret Service agent and Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director at the Counter Extremism Project break down the impact of the New Orleans terror attack on U.S. security -especially in Washington, D.C."
"Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project also sees a growing danger from IS terror for Europe and Germany . However, a special fund alone will not provide a solution, Schindler warned in an interview with the Münchner Merkur . "Money alone is not a solution. The legal basis must first be created, only then can the money from a special fund be used effectively," said Schindler.”"
"From Hans-Jakob Schindler's point of view, the fact that Hamas decided to publish Liri Albag's video in such a sensitive situation can be explained primarily by negotiating tactics. "With such videos of the hostages, Hamas always aims to put pressure on the Israeli government through their families and the public in order to persuade it to make concessions in the negotiations," says the senior director of the international Counter Extremism Project.”
“For a few years, the Islamic State seemed to be nothing more than a ghost from the past. A fallacy, because it is now clear that the terrorist organization never really disappeared and is once again highly active. Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project warns of a new danger of attacks in Europe and Germany. "What is new is that the terrorists are again daring to use more resources for elaborate attacks like the one in Moscow," said Schindler in an interview with IPPEN.MEDIA . At the end of March 2024, armed men carried out an attack on a concert hall in the Russian capital, leaving more than 140 people dead and hundreds injured.”
CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "t conferences and roundtables on counter extremism in recent months, it has been impossible to escape the terms ‘mis’ and ‘disinformation’. For among experts, practitioners, academics, civil servants and police officers, it is the default explanation for understanding not only extremism in Britain, but the wider mood of popular discontent."
"Professor Ian Acheson, a former prison governor and now senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, told the newspaper: “This is the first time I have seen the insider threat explicitly acknowledged by HM Prison Service, albeit you have to really hunt to find the admission."
"“That would create some kind of uproar within the community of supporters and sympathisers of IS,” said Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter-Extremism Project (CEP) think tank.
In theory, the caliph has to be an Arab from a tribe linked to the prophet. The supreme leader of a group so concerned with its ideological foundations “cannot be just any Somali with an orange beard,” Schindler told AFP."
“There’s no question it was IS inspired,” said Edmund Fitton-Brown, senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project. “So why would they not grab it gratefully? It seems an unmissable opportunity to claim a direct hit on the ‘biggest Satan.’"
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